One of the more annoying self righteous attacks on the administration in recent years (and perhaps the most disingenuous) is the whole surveillance controversy…We’re constantly hearing from lefties how America is turning to a fascist country. That we should be more like Europe. The European lefties themselves chime in with their smarmy finger-snapping disdain.
For Europeans, scolding the Bush administration for everything from Guantanamo to the Iraq War to secret CIA prisons has become a full-time job. But when it comes to the American scandal over President Bush’s warrantless wiretaps, there’s been a curious reaction from the other side of the Atlantic: silence.